April 4, 2017
Radhika Mittal and Sam Chiu-Wai Wong win 2017 Google PhD Fellowships
Graduate students Radhika Mittal (advisors: …
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March 22, 2017
Baiyu Chen awarded top prize at Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge
CS graduate student Baiyu Chen (advisor: Alexei Efros) and Anthony Barrs were awarded top prize and $50,000 for their design at the Infrastructure Vision 2050 Challenge. Their idea, profiled in an article for Fortune, was to construct a “Hyperlane,” or a single platform the size…
March 20, 2017
Eli Yablonovitch to receive IEEE William R. Cherry Award
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch has been awarded the IEEE William R. Cherry Award, which is the highest IEEE Award for solar cells. This award recognizes an individual engineer or scientist who has devoted a part of their professional life to the advancement of the science and technology of…
March 16, 2017
Jan Rabaey to receive two honorary doctorates
Prof. Jan Rabaey will be receiving two honorary doctorates. The first one is for scientific merit from the University of Antwerp in Belgium on March 30, 2017. The second one will follow on May 20 from the Tampere University of Technology. The title of Honorary Doctor is the highest…
March 13, 2017
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli selected to receive the 2017 IEEE TCCPS Award
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been named recipient of the 2017 IEEE TCCPS (Technical Committee on CyberPhysical Systems) Technical Achievement Award. This award recognizes significant and sustained contributions to the cyber-physical system (CPS) community based on the impact of high-quality research made by the awardee throughout their lifetime. Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli ‘s research…
March 9, 2017
Sarah Bergbreiter engineers submillimeter-sized robotic systems
EECS alumna Sarah Bergbreiter (M.S. ’04/Ph.D. ’07) is the subject of a profile by the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland celebrating female engineering faculty during women’s history month. Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Institute for Systems Research,…
March 9, 2017
Anca Dragan and Yoky Matsuoka are taking charge in 2017
CS Assistant Prof. Anca Dragan and EECS alumna Yoky Matsuoka (B.S. ’93) are among Interesting Engineering‘s “17 Awesome Women Engineers” who are revolutionizing the engineering field in 2017. Anca is described as “one of the rising stars of the robotics scene” as the head of the InterACT Lab…
February 21, 2017
Ren Ng selected to receive 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship
Assistant Prof. Ren Ng has been selected to receive the 2017 Sloan Research Fellowship in the category of Computer Science. 126 early-career scholars are chosen to receive this prestigious award and represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Since 1955, Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to…
February 17, 2017
Marti Hearst elected to the ACM SIGCHI Academy
Prof. Marti Hearst has been elected into the Association of Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) Academy. The SIGCHI Academy is an honorary group of individuals who have made substantial contributions to the field of human-computer interaction. These are the principal leaders of the field,…
February 8, 2017
Tsu-Jae King Liu and Katherine Yelick elected to the NAE
Prof. Tsu-Jae King Liu and Prof. Katherine Yelick have been elected to the National Academy of Engineers (NAE). Election to membership in the NAE is among the highest forms of recognition of notable accomplishments in engineering. Prof. King Liu was recognized for “contributions to the fin field effect transistor (FinFET)…